Yoga for Prana

18/11/2025

To my dear friends on the path,

I hope this finds you and your loved ones well.

Two years ago, I was lying in bed after wrist surgery, wondering if I would ever be able to use my arms without pain again. The simplest actions, brushing my hair, holding a cup of tea, supporting myself on the mat, felt impossibly far away. After months of pain prior to surgery and the uncertainty after, I wasn’t sure how, or even if, my body would recover, repair, and renew.

I have to be mindful of the way I use my hands, wrists and arms but today, I’m reminded what a privilege it is to move freely ... to feel both capable and connected.

When we bear weight through our arms, we’re reminded of how much they do for us, not only in the shapes we create, but in the way they connect us to the world. They hold, lift, push away, pull close. They are the bridge between effort and expression, between our heart and the space around us.

In this way, our arms mirror our relationships. They teach us how to extend without overreaching, how to support without losing ourselves, and how to open our hearts while staying grounded. Just as in the body, harmony arises when strength meets softness, when we balance giving and receiving, holding and releasing, action and rest.

This week’s practice is all about the arms ... finding that delicate balance between stability and surrender. It’s an invitation to explore what it means to be supported from within, so that our connections with others can flow with more ease and authenticity.

As we prepare for The Art of Harmonious Relationships workshop in Braidwood on Friday night, may our physical practice remind us that every relationship - with others, with our body, with life itself - begins in the same place: the willingness to move from the heart.

May your arms, your actions, and your presence be guided by both strength and grace.

18/11/2025

Today's class we focused on the arms and gratitude, perfect way to start the day 🌞

29/10/2025

To my dear friends on the path,

I hope this finds you and your loved ones well.

This past week, I’ve noticed myself quick to anger ... a sharp tone in my voice, a tightness in my chest, a low hum of irritation lingering in the background.

After a few days of trying to think my way into a more zen state of mind, I finally pulled out my trusty notebook and began to write. As the words spilled out, I realised the anger wasn’t the root, it was a shield. Beneath it sat sadness. Sadness for the things I can’t control, for the moments that feel too heavy, too much. Seeing that truth softened something inside me. It created the space I needed to breathe and let the emotion move through.

It’s similar when I sit with Kailash in his anger. His emotions can be intense and unpredictable, and sometimes mine rise right alongside his. But when I can see past his anger, to the hurt or frustration beneath, I’m reminded that what he needs most isn’t my correction, but my calm. My listening. My steady breath.

Yoga keeps teaching me this again and again: emotions are not problems to fix, but energies to move through. When we meet them with curiosity rather than judgement, they begin to unravel on their own, revealing what they’re trying to show us.

In this week’s classes, we’ll explore both anger and sadness, how they move through the body, how we can meet them with breath and awareness, and how understanding them can bring a quiet kind of healing.

24/10/2025

Tonight's workshop to explore the subconscious and doorway to deeper self-understanding through dreams. Leaving inspired and full of gratitude for those who joined 🙏🏼

10/10/2025

Beautiful start to the day! I am so blessed to do what I love ❤️

04/10/2025

To my dear friends on the path,

So much of life invites us to rush, to plan, to predict, to know what comes next. With the long weekend, school holidays and routine shifts I have been working to loosen my grip on the “shoulds” and expectations, to instead allow space for life to unfold.

There is comfort in perceiving it's all figured out, but as much as we can try to prepare and control what's to come, we never really know.

In this weeks classes I am going to ask what you would like to focus on – body part, topic, theme. Together we can see how it unfolds, bringing a sense of curiosity and presence.

01/10/2025

This months newsletter ...

Dreams are mysterious, magical, and deeply human. They weave through our nights and sometimes linger into our days, shaping how we see ourselves and the world around us. In yoga, dreams are not simply stories of the sleeping mind – they can be reflections of the subconscious, quiet messages from w...

29/09/2025

To my dear friends on the path,

“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”

I love this quote. It reminds me that growth often doesn’t look graceful while we’re in the midst of it. More often, it feels like everything is falling apart. My daily meditation practice has shown me just how much internal chaos is there beneath the surface ... my mind wanting to be elsewhere, calmer, more connected, more “together.”

Yoga keeps bringing me back to acceptance. The acceptance of what is. The courage to lean into what may be. The willingness to move through old patterns that no longer fit. It’s not easy. Sometimes it’s messy, uncomfortable, even frustrating.

Slowly, I'm learning to trust that these moments are part of the process. Just like the seed, we cannot expand without first breaking open.

Inspired by our nursery, I’ll be carrying this seed imagery into class this week. We will look at growth, transformation and core.

I have been asked how seedlings can be purchased, here is a list you can email me with an order and I'll bring it in to Braidwood or Bungendore.

Finally, if you find yourself in a season of uncertainty or change, remember: it’s not destruction, it’s becoming. Trust the unfolding. Trust that new life is already on its way, even if you can’t see it yet.

I hope to practice with you.

23/09/2025

The Spring Equinox arrived this week, a beautiful moment of balance ... day and night equal in length, darkness and light in perfect harmony. From this point on, the days slowly stretch out, inviting us into growth, expansion, and renewal.

Just as the earth tilts towards the sun, we too can lean into the light. The equinox reminds us that balance is not something fixed, but a living, breathing rhythm. Some days feel heavy, others light. Some moments draw us inward, others call us to open outward. Yoga teaches us to meet each phase with awareness, compassion, and steadiness.

This is a time for clearing out and starting fresh. Just as we prepare our gardens by pulling weeds and nourishing the soil, we can prepare our inner landscape—releasing old patterns, softening the tension we no longer need, and planting seeds of intention for the season ahead.

In our classes this week, we’ll explore practices to honour this shift: grounding postures that root us, heart-openers to welcome new possibilities, and breathwork to connect us to the cycles of nature. Together, we’ll tune in to that delicate dance between stillness and movement, holding and releasing, darkness and light.

I hope to practice with you.

16/09/2025

To my dear friends on the path,

I didn’t realise how much tension I hold until this week, when I made a conscious effort to really observe it. Oh my goodness, for hours on end I catch myself tensing! Honestly, I don’t even want to imagine how tightly wound I’d be without yoga.

Most of the tension I noticed came from wanting things to be different from how they are. Naturally, there were the big moments - like hitting a wombat on the drive to market at 4:30am Sunday morning, attending my Aunty’s funeral, soothing Lilly the pup crying on the way home from the vet, or burning myself while putting wood on the fire.

But then there were the small, everyday moments too - not finding the right words in mid-conversation, running late, worrying that I’d offended someone, trying to get dinner perfectly timed, even while writing this newsletter.

Tightness. Holding. Bracing.
At first I thought it was all about perfectionism, or the desire to have things “just right,” or the need to stay in control. But the more I observe, the more I see it’s become a habit. A way of being “on.”

Rather than treating it as something wrong that I need to fix, I’m learning to see it as an invitation, an opportunity to soften, to choose another way.

So this week in class, our theme will weave together mistakes, perfection, acceptance, and compassion, with a focus on simply noticing tension. Where do we hold it, and how might we soften when we do?

11/09/2025

To my dear friends on the path,

Tension had been building ... frustration, anger, and the sense that I was about to explode. I sat down with my notebook and, almost without thinking, wrote: “I hate my life.”

The words startled me. They weren’t true. I don’t hate life itself—what I hated was the way I was living it. I had been swept up in the speed of everything, running at full tilt yet never catching up. It felt like living as a permanently on-call emergency doctor, information flooding in, impossible to process. Endlessly externalising, tethered to devices, addicted to stimulation. Always more to do, more to learn, more to improve. Striving to arrive somewhere, yet going nowhere.

Something had to change. The noise, the movement, the relentless pace, it was all too much. I knew peace of mind couldn’t be found “out there.” True contentment and meaning can’t be born from constant motion.

The only answer, stillness.

So I gave myself a day — 9 to 5 — with no TV, no music, no reading, no writing. No exercise, no yoga, no conversations, no cooking, no cleaning, not even sleep. Nothing to distract, nothing to entertain. Just stillness. At times I stood, stretched, or walked to the bathroom, but I returned to my seat.

Was it easy? Absolutely not. It was hard — achingly hard. At times my mind ran wild, restless and insistent, desperate to move, to do, to be anywhere but here. Yet, in the spaces between the noise, something else appeared. Quiet. Clarity. Ease, contentment, even bliss. And those moments, reminded me how essential stillness is.

That day led me to make a promise to myself: no matter what, I will keep showing up for my daily meditation practice.

Because stillness doesn’t just happen — it takes effort. It asks for discipline, for boundaries, for the courage to step away. It is not a luxury; it is a necessity. And when we practice it, the benefits unfold in ways we cannot measure or predict.

For today, I invite you to pause. Step back, even for a breath or two, from the noise of the world. Return to the calm, steady place within — the part of you that is always waiting, always whole.

31/08/2025

To my dear friends on the path,

I had never experienced such extreme polarity as I did in that moment.

Holding one baby who was alive, warm in my arms — and another who was not. Still, cold.

I remember thinking, How am I supposed to exist inside this dichotomy? To cradle grief in one hand and joy in the other, as if they could somehow coexist in the same breath, the same body.

My mind wanted to split it all neatly apart — happy or sad, pain or pleasure. But both were there, undeniably present. And perhaps the greatest challenge of all was learning to let them be.

There’s a saying: we cannot know light without knowing darkness. In the same way, we cannot fully appreciate one experience without its opposite.

These contrasts give meaning. They help us understand. It’s only because we’ve known the night that we recognize the dawn.

Day and night may seem like separate worlds, but really, they are interwoven — two halves of one reality. Two sides of the same coin.

This principle runs through all of life.

When we allow ourselves to acknowledge both the light and the shadow, we begin to see the full picture. We experience wholeness.

Just like the dance between the in-breath and the out-breath, life is a constant movement between opposites. And when we stop clinging to extremes — to black or white — we begin to experience the infinite shades in between. The full spectrum. The colour. And it is this colour that creates the rich tapestry of life - one with depth, meaning, and beauty.

For today, may you embrace the full spectrum — wherever you find yourself on it — and feel the quiet blessing of being whole.